Harland and Wolff has won a major contract involving work on an oil rig due to arrive in Belfast later this week. It will create work for around 1,000 contractors for a period of between eight and ten weeks.

Fire crews have been battling a major blaze at Didcot B Power Station, Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue has said.At the height of the fire, which broke out in one of the cooling towers, 20 fire appliances were at the scene